Thursday 15th July 2004

07:00

Morning on 3

15 July 2004

Presented by Penny Gore.

Music includes, from 7.00am

Alexander Mackenzie: Britannia - A Nautical Overture
English Northern Sinfonia
David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)

Beethoven: Rondino for piano in G major, Op 51 No 2
Alfred Brendel

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Hugh Wolff (conductor)

From 8.30am

Poulenc: Sonata for flute and piano
Philippa Davies (flute)
Ian Brown (piano)

Haydn: The Seasons - Summer
Barbara Bonney (Soprano)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Andreas Schmidt (bass)
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner

Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op 45
LSO
Antal Dorati

10:00

CD Masters

15 July 2004

With Jonathan Swain.

Liszt: Malediction
Jorge Bolet (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Ivan Fischer (conductor)

Grainger: Random Round
Susan Gritton (soprano)
Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo)
Mark Tucker (tenor)
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Listener Request
Mozart: Violin Concerto in A major, K 219
Tibor Varga (violin/director)
Orchestra du Festival Tibor Varga Sion

Listener Request
Respighi: Il Tramonto
Irmgard Seefried (soprano)
Festival Strings Lucerne
Rudolf Baumgartner (conductor)

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Guido Cantelli (conductor)

De Schlozer: Study, Op 1/2
Jorge Bolet (piano)

12:00

Composer of the Week

Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944)

4. The Wilderness Years

Between 1910 and 1912 Ethel Smyth virtually gave up writing music and devoted herself to the suffragist cause. One of the few works Smyth completed in 1912 were the last two movements of her String Quartet in E minor. She had written the first two movements ten years earlier. Smyth was a friend and supporter of Emmeline Pankhurst, and wrote what became the marching anthem for the cause, The March of the Women.

The years leading up to this decision had been difficult for Ethel Smyth. She had experienced conflict over a production of her opera The Wreckers in Leipzig, which resulted in many opera houses, including Covent Garden, avoiding performances of her work. Two years later though in 1908 Smyth went to Paris to hear a performance of her Four Songs for Chamber Ensemble, which Debussy praised as well as the French critics.

Donald Macleod and Odaline de la Martinez discuss these years of change and the effect they had on Ethel Smyth's music.

The March of the Women
Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano)
The Plymouth Festival Chorus and Orchestra
Philip Brunelle (conductor)

Possession
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Graham Johnson (piano)

String Quartet in E minor (3rd and 4th movements)
Archaeus Quartet

Four Songs for Voice and Chamber Ensemble
Jane's Minstrels
Jane Manning (soprano)

13:00

Lunchtime Concert

Cheltenham Festival 2004

Kungsbacka Piano Trio

The exciting young Kungsbacka Piano Trio perform two stalwarts of the chamber repertoire this lunchtime: Beethoven's Piano Trio in C minor Op.1 and Schubert's Piano Trio No.1 in B flat.

Introduced by Chris de Souza.

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in C minor, Op 1 No 3
Franz Schubert: Piano Trio No 1 in B flat, D 898

Kungsbacka Piano Trio

14:30

Afternoon Performance

Best of Proms 2003

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Louise Fryer introduces more highlights of last year's Proms season from the BBC performing groups.

Today the BBC SSO takes centre stage with music by Schumann and Shostakovich.

Schumann: Cello Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No 10

Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

16:00

Brian Kay's Light Programme

15 July 2004

Brian Kay plays a selection of light classics.

17:00

In Tune

15 July 2004

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, news and reviews from the arts world.

19:30

Performance on 3

Leonard Bernstein Gala Concert

Complete performance

A gala concert celebrating the music of Leonard Bernstein by Kim Criswell (soprano), Jean Yves-Thibaudet (piano), Maida Vale Singers and the LSO conducted by Marin Alsop.

21:30

Night Waves

15 July 2004

Paul Allen and guests discuss The Miracle of Bern, directed by ex footballer Sonke Wortmann, which was the highest grossing film in Germany last year.

22:15

Late Junction

15 July 2004

Shaheera Asante's listening mix includes tracks from guitarist Seckou Diabate's new album, music by Belgian guitarist Jacques Stotzem and a raag from sitarist Purbayan Chatterjee.

00:00

Composer of the Week

The Neapolitan Connection

5. Tommaso Traetta (1727-1779) in St. Petersburg

Donald Macleod introduces the last of five programmes devoted to mid-18th century Neapolitan opera seria and to the cities and courts outside Italy where its composers flourished.

Extracts from Antigona (1772)
Soloists
Accentus Chamber Choir
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (conductor)

Extracts from Ippolito ed Aricia (1759)
Soloists
Bratislava Chamber Choir
Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia
David Golub (conductor)

01:00

Through the Night

15 July 2004

Part One

With Louise Fryer.

1.00am
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Milen Nachev (conductor)

Franck: Le Chasseur Maudit
Shchedrin: Carmen - ballet suite (after Bizet)
Scriabin: Symphony No 3 in C 'The Divine poem' Op 43

2.45am
Gorecki: Cantata in honour of St Wojciech (Aldalbertus) 'Salve Sidus Polonorum'
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir
Percussion Ensemble of the National Philharmonic Orchestra
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Wojciech Michniewski (conductor)

3.10am
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 12 in C sharp minor
Rian de Waal (piano)

3.20am
Berlioz: King Lear Overture, Op 4
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa (conductor)

3.40am
Beethoven: Piano Trio in G major, Op 1 No 2
The Grieg Trio

4.10am
Mozart: Concert aria - Ch'io mi scordi di te? Non temer, amato bene, K505
Joan Carden (soprano)
John Winter (piano)
The Orchestra of Sydney
John Harding (conductor)

4.20am
Califano: Sonata a quattro in C major
Ensemble Zefiro

4.30am
Chopin: Preludes, Op 28, Nos 6-10
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)

4.35am
Brahms: Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein rein Herz, Op 29 No 2
Wiener Kammerchor
Johannes Prinz (director)

4.55am
Elgar: The Wild Bears (The Wand of Youth Suite No 2)
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

05:00

Through the Night

15 July 2004

Part Two

Louise Fryer concludes the programme.

5.00am
Blaz Arnic: Overture to the Comic Opera, Op 11
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra
Anton Nanut (conductor)

5.05am
Dvorak: Slavonic Dance in A major, Op 46 No 5
James Anagnoson, Leslie Kinton (pianos)

5.10am
Jan Blockx: Flemish Dances
BRT Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels
Alexander Rahbari (conductor)

5.25am
Tchaikovsky: Dumka - Russian rustic scene
Duncan Gifford (piano)

5.35am
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel Lustige Streiche, Op 28
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Paul Paray (conductor)

5.45am
Faure (transcr/arr G Littera): Pavane in F minor, Op 50
Gianluca Littera (harmonica)
I Cameristi Italiani

5.55am
Kirnberger: Cantata An den Flussen Babylons
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor
Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble
Detlef Bratschke (conductor)
Johannes Happel (bass)

6.05am
Bach: Cello Suite No 1 in G major, BWV 1007
Guy Fouquet (cello)

6.25am
Handel: Dixit Dominus
Sarah Fox (soprano)
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Mark Le Brocq (tenor)
Matthew Hargreaves (baritone)
The English Concert and English Concert Choir
Academy of Ancient Music and Chorus
Andrew Manze (violin/director)